23/09

For Today's research about my background I started by the first thing that defines each person: Our name. My parents named me Ida because it means the third eye in old German, that is located in the forehead above the meeting point of the two eyebrows. I have always been fascinated by the eyes, doors to the soul, but also the tools that permit us to have visual memories. I thought also about the fact that in English Ida is pronounced Eye-da. And that the word includes the eye. However, the main reason why I chose to work on this part of the body is because of my grandfather. My dad passed away when I was still a child and ever since my grandfather took his place. He is a person that counts a lot for me. Being very old, he has since a few years cataract on his eyes but refuses to remove it, afraid of loosing sight. Last year we discovered that he is starting to loose memories and that we couldn't do anything for it. From that moment on, each time I visit him I try to find in his blurred green gray eyes my memory. I am afraid of him forgetting me and I wished there was a remedy against it.

Which is why I dedicated myself to represent him loosing his eyes ( his ida's ) and his memories at the same time.

For the collages I called my grandmother and asked her to take pictures of his eyes and send them to me so that I could explore them. I also used old picture of us together that captured the best moments I had with him. I hope that I will be able to translate my feelings into fabric samples, because the subject that I chose really matters to me a lot.

so I started doing some researches about the eye and its connection to the memories of the human.

According to the old saying the eyes are revealing deep emotions that we might otherwise want to hide. Although modern science precludes the existence of the soul, it does suggest that there is a kernel of truth in this saying: it turns out the eyes not only reflect what is happening in the brain but may also influence how we remember things and make decisions.Our eyes are constantly moving, and while some of those movements are under conscious control, many of them occur subconsciously. When we read, for instance, we make a series of very quick eye movements called saccades that fixate rapidly on one word after another. When we enter a room, we make larger sweeping saccades as we gaze around. Then there are the small, involuntary eye movements we make as we walk, to compensate for the movement of our head and stabilise our view of the world. And, of course, our eyes dart around during the ‘rapid eye movement’ (REM) phase of sleep.

What is now becoming clear is that some of our eye movements may actually reveal our thought process.Research published last year shows that pupil dilation is linked to the degree of uncertainty during decision-making: if somebody is less sure about their decision, they feel heightened arousal, which causes the pupils to dilate. This change in the eye may also reveal what a decision-maker is about to say: one group of researchers, for example, found that watching for dilation made it possible to predict when a cautious person used to saying ‘no’ was about to make the tricky decision to say ‘yes’.

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